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[v1,1/1] gpio: aspeed: Add gpio base address reading

Message ID 20210113223808.31626-2-hongweiz@ami.com
State New
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Series gpio: aspeed: Add gpio base address reading | expand

Commit Message

Hongwei Zhang Jan. 13, 2021, 10:38 p.m. UTC
Add gpio base address reading in the driver; in old code, it just
returns -1 to gpio->chip.base.

Fixes: 7ee2d5b4d4340353 ("ARM: dts: nuvoton: Add Fii Kudo system")
Signed-off-by: Hongwei Zhang <hongweiz@ami.com>
---
 drivers/gpio/gpio-aspeed.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Andrew Jeffery Jan. 14, 2021, 12:27 a.m. UTC | #1
Hello,

On Thu, 14 Jan 2021, at 09:08, Hongwei Zhang wrote:
> Add gpio base address reading in the driver; in old code, it just
> returns -1 to gpio->chip.base.

Why do you want to do this? It feels hacky. The base address only affects the 
legacy sysfs number-space, and even then if you're using the sysfs interface 
you can discover the base address for a specific gpiochip via the associated 
attribute. For example:

# cat /sys/bus/platform/devices/1e780000.gpio/gpio/gpiochip*/base
816

I feel that you should instead be changing your userspace not to assume a fixed 
value.

Finally, the base value is a linux-specific thing and doesn't belong in the 
devicetree, and if it did, you would also need to update the devicetree binding 
in Documentation/.

Cheers,

Andrew
Linus Walleij Jan. 18, 2021, 2:40 p.m. UTC | #2
On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 11:38 PM Hongwei Zhang <hongweiz@ami.com> wrote:

> Add gpio base address reading in the driver; in old code, it just
> returns -1 to gpio->chip.base.
>
> Fixes: 7ee2d5b4d4340353 ("ARM: dts: nuvoton: Add Fii Kudo system")
> Signed-off-by: Hongwei Zhang <hongweiz@ami.com>

NAK, sorry.

We never allow the device tree to specify this.

First, it is a Linux-only base so it would have to be a
"linux,..." property.

Even if it is a Linux-only property, it is a bad idea.

Only people using sysfs should have any need to specify global
GPIO numbers. Don't use sysfs. Use the GPIO character device
instead. See further:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/gpio/TODO

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-aspeed.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-aspeed.c
index d07bf2c3f136..4ebe4c40154c 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-aspeed.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-aspeed.c
@@ -1140,7 +1140,7 @@  static int __init aspeed_gpio_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	const struct of_device_id *gpio_id;
 	struct aspeed_gpio *gpio;
 	int rc, i, banks, err;
-	u32 ngpio;
+	u32 ngpio, base;
 
 	gpio = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*gpio), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!gpio)
@@ -1179,7 +1179,10 @@  static int __init aspeed_gpio_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	gpio->chip.set = aspeed_gpio_set;
 	gpio->chip.set_config = aspeed_gpio_set_config;
 	gpio->chip.label = dev_name(&pdev->dev);
-	gpio->chip.base = -1;
+	err = of_property_read_u32(pdev->dev.of_node, "base", &base);
+	gpio->chip.base = (u16) base;
+	if (err)
+		gpio->chip.base = -1;
 
 	/* Allocate a cache of the output registers */
 	banks = DIV_ROUND_UP(gpio->chip.ngpio, 32);